Richard Dawson (16 April 1762 – 3 September 1807) was an Irish Member of Parliament.

Biography

He was the third son of Richard Dawson of

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by his wife Anne, daughter of

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, and after his father's death in 1782 he became heir-presumptive to his uncle Thomas Dawson, 1st Baron Dartrey. On 22 May 1784 he married Catherine, daughter of Colonel Arthur Graham of Hockley, county Armagh; they had one son and four daughters.Arthur Aspinall
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in April 1797Edith Mary Johnston-Liik (2006), ''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''
p. 83
through the influence of his uncle (now Viscount Cremorne), and was named as heir in the special remainder of the barony of Cremorne granted to his uncle in November of that year.

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He continued to represent Monaghan in the Irish Parliament until the Act of Union, and then sat for the same county in the

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until his death in a Dublin Hotel.Balwin et al 1827. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1807. page 591. His son Richard Thomas Dawson succeeded as second Baron Cremorne in 1813.

References

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